• Littleborat@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Maybe that does work again after the thing with subreddits going nsfw has been somewhat resolved but not sure. It was my thing too. I heard good things about bing of all places. In general search just got worse over the last 5-6 years.

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      1 year ago

      People talk about Bing and duck duck go like they’re good replacements, and I’ve given them honest good faith tries.

      I always switch my search engine back to Google after simply not getting the results I’m looking for

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        1 year ago

        you can use Google or Bing from duckduckgo using !bangs. g! (for google) or b! (for bing) then whatever you are searching for. I use g! all the time for non privacy related things. and since duckduckgo doesn’t use trackers and all that the results can be terrible so sometimes I just resort to using g!

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          Using DuckDuckGo to search through Google seems pretty damn pointless if you ask me. If the search engine is shit and I am just roundabout using Google then why even bother?

          I know you said the thing about trackers, but a lot of us don’t really care about that. If the end result is just using Google anyway then I’d rather just start with Google and not use another site to use Google.

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            1 year ago

            oh yeah. if you don’t care, there really is not a point to use duckduckgo. I should say IMO because I’m sure a much more technically minded person will have a better answer.

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            1 year ago

            I disagree. A lot of the Google search results are based on your previous search history and your advertising profile the company has generated for you, which skews and promotes most of the front page Google search results as advertising links. And unless you’re searching for an actual product, they are not so useful.

            Like if I want to search for comments, and all my search results are advertising me telescopes and astronomy software that’s not so helpful.

      • hotdaniel@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        I think something broke with Bing’s advanced search. It doesn’t seem to respond at all.

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      1 year ago

      I used Bing chat to plan my itinerary for my next vacation. These LLMs are the new best way to search, although the recent stories of their results becoming worse doesn’t bode well